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Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism (2024)
Book
Heywood, P. (in press). Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism. Cornell University Press

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist touris... Read More about Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism.

Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting (2024)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (in press). Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting. Cultural Anthropology,

This paper explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and ‘difficult’ heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the... Read More about Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting.

Problem solving as selective blindness (2024)
Journal Article
Abram, S. (2024). Problem solving as selective blindness. Critique of Anthropology, 44(3), 256-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x241269606

This article examines the practices associated with technical solutions to energy transitions. In particular, it considers the role of ‘problem solving’ as a partial view on the world with extraordinary influence. As the core epistemological practice... Read More about Problem solving as selective blindness.

Detection rates and diel activity patterns of four understudied felids from Borneo (2024)
Journal Article
Allen, M. L., & Allan, A. T. L. (2024). Detection rates and diel activity patterns of four understudied felids from Borneo. Ecology and Evolution, 14(9), Article e70301. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70301

Carnivore guilds are charismatic and have vital and irreplaceable roles in their native ecosystems, yet many of these species are threatened and remain understudied. Borneo is a biodiversity hotspot that hosts a rich diversity of endemic wildlife but... Read More about Detection rates and diel activity patterns of four understudied felids from Borneo.

Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19 (2024)
Journal Article
Burgoyne, K., Hargreaves, S., Akhter, N., Cramman, H., Eerola, P., Einbeck, J., & Menzies, V. (online). Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19. JCPP Advances, Article e12279. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12279

Background: Parents play a key role in their child's early development but evidence that parental engagement strategies are effective is unclear. The current study evaluated a parent‐delivered early language teaching programme that aimed to support c... Read More about Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19.

The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa (2024)
Journal Article
Corso, A., & Mookherjee, N. (online). The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa. American Anthropologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28016

Drawing from the extensive literature on the anthropology of borders and border death in and beyond Europe, this article ethnographically explores the processes through which irregular migrants and locals at the borderland of Lampedusa (south of Sici... Read More about The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa.

The Brains and Bones Project: Using Embodied Teaching to Teach Embodiment (2024)
Journal Article
Rosen, S., & Barton, R. (2025). The Brains and Bones Project: Using Embodied Teaching to Teach Embodiment. Teaching Anthropology, 14(1), Article DT1. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v14i1.689

This article summarises the initial phase of a new project, Brains and Bones, which seeks to teach audiences of all ages about evolutionary anthropology and the embodied relationships between our brains, bones, and the world around us. Using an embod... Read More about The Brains and Bones Project: Using Embodied Teaching to Teach Embodiment.

Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates. (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, P., Arlet, M. E., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Brent, L. J. N., Duboscq, J., García-Nisa, I., Kaburu, S. S. K., Kendal, R., Konečná, M., Marty, P. R., McCowan, B., Micheletta, J., Ostner, J., Schülke, O., Schino, G., & Majolo, B. (2024). Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates. Behavioral Ecology, 35(5), Article arae066. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae066

In animal social groups, the extent to which individuals consistently win agonistic interactions and their ability to monopolize resources represent 2 core aspects of their competitive regime. However, whether these two aspects are closely correlated... Read More about Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates..

Behavioural compatibility, not fear, best predicts the looking patterns of chacma baboons (2024)
Journal Article
Allan, A. T. L., LaBarge, L., Bailey, A., Jones, B., Mason, Z., Pinfield, T., Schröder, F., Whitaker, A., White, A., Wilkinson, H., & Hill, R. (2024). Behavioural compatibility, not fear, best predicts the looking patterns of chacma baboons. Communications Biology, 7(1), Article 980. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06657-w

Animal vigilance is often investigated under a narrow set of scenarios, but this approach may overestimate its contribution to animal lives. A solution may be to sample all looking behaviours and investigate numerous competing hypotheses in a single... Read More about Behavioural compatibility, not fear, best predicts the looking patterns of chacma baboons.